Messi’s World Cup narrative needs a serious reality check.
— 6 World Cups played… and still never faced Brazil, Spain, England, Uruguay, Portugal, or Italy.
— Against actual elite nations, he’s only faced Germany (3x), the Netherlands (2x), France (1x) and lost every single one.
— 2010 FIFA World Cup, he scored 0 goals.
— 2014 FIFA World Cup, he scored 4 goals, all in the group stage vs Bosnia, Nigeria, and Iran.
— 2018 FIFA World Cup, he scored once… against Nigeria again.
— 2022 FIFA World Cup, he scored 7 goals, with 4 penalties.
When you strip away the PR, penalties, and stat-padding against weak opposition, Messi’s World Cup career might be the most protected legacy football has ever seen.
This takes courage…
The Strokes closed their Coachella set flashing images of the governments the CIA has overthrown, the leaders the US has assassinated including MLK 👀, the war crimes the US is committing in Iran, and the genocide Israel is committing in occupied Palestine.
I knew it. Coachella took down the video.
Variety, NME, CNN Brasil, & Pitchfork wrote articles using this tweet.
Reposting it here in clips: the moment The Strokes criticized the CIA, the US government, and the killings in Iran and Gaza.
#Strokeschella
Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination"
An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?"
Kobe responds:
"I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you."
The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?"
Kobe responds:
"What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination."
He explains with an analogy:
"Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist."
The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?"
Kobe:
"No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again."
He concludes:
"I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."
Keep training! #UFC326
Listen up! Try to help people who needs your help, you can be very important in someone's life.
Imagine helping to change bad days in something very positive for someone else.
2026 can be your turn of achievement, and the year you can support someone's achieve.
And have a nice weekend everybody. And GOD bless you.
Mexican woman Viridiana Álvarez holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest ascent of the three highest mountains in the world. In the picture she is seen holding an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
So where is everyone on marijuana?
“If you are a marijuana smoker, I would vastly prefer you switch to heroin. Heroin will take you down faster and you can then pick yourself up and start your life, because Marijuana is the drug of illusion. It creates the illusion that you are thinking great thoughts and doing great things, while you’re sitting on the sofa growing a beard.”
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